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• I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

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  Purpose, Claims, Knowing God

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• There is no role I cannot play except a midget.

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  Play, Roles, Midget

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• I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

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  Song, Drama, Musical Ability

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• An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

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  Fashion, Thinking, Theatre

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• When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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  Moving, Audience, Breaths

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• Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

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  Retirement, Believe, Tired

  "Theodore Bikel, actor, singer and Broadway star, dies at 91" by Nancy Groves, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2015.

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• You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

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  Laughing, Vacuums, Six Months

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• While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

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  Practice, Doubt, Ongoing

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• I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

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  Stage, Granddaddy

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• You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

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  Art, People, Please

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• It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

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  Queens, Lasts, Members

  "EXCLUSIVE: Theodore Bikel Reminisces on The African Queen" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 23, 2010.

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• In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

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  Israel, Cities, Mind

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• I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

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  Letting Go, Tradition

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• On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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  Funny, Ends, Middle

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• Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

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  Country, Risk, Age

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• For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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  Believe, Principles, Jewish Life

  Theodore Bikel (2014). “Theo: An Autobiography”, p.436, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

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  Actors, Want, Direct

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

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  Artist, Toil, Culture

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• Audiences are audiences.

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  Audience

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• As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

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  Art, Government, Abiding

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• After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

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  Advent, Given, Mass

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• You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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  Travel, New York, World

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• Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

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  Grateful, Omission, People

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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  Country, Art, Pride

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• I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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